Hillary’s ‘testimony’ was insult to us all

By Jim Dargan

Published: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 04:24 PM.

To the editor:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to do her job. She acknowledged a “systemic breakdown” cited by an independent review of issues leading up to the armed assault on the American-occupied compound in Benghazi, Libya, and said her department was taking additional steps to increase security at U.S. diplomatic facilities.

In most jobs, if there are “systemic breakdowns,” people are fired. But in this case, liberals and the fawning media gush that Clinton had done an extraordinary job. How can anyone come to that conclusion when four Americans are dead on her watch?

Oh sure, she “took responsibility” but blamed intelligence, Defense and everyone else, as liberals typically do. When asked how it happened and that the American people still don’t know, she responded with “What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening.”

With all due respect, as a polite person might say, that is simply a load of garbage. From her first day on the job in 2009, it was her responsibility to ensure the security of our diplomatic missions overseas and prevent the deaths of her employees! It is not her job to fly around the world while waiting for something to happen and then decide to figure out what happened and prevent it in the future.

Why didn’t this extraordinary leader and all the other oh-so-smart liberals on her staff figure it out in the previous four years? The ambassador and three other brave Americans might be alive today.

When Republicans are in these positions, Democrats, the media and other leftists typically find them less than extraordinary but manage to blame them for everything that happens — since they’re the ones “in charge.” But when the smartest people in the world (usually liberals) are in power, we are told that the job is so massive and complex no one could possibly be accountable for everything that happens.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to do her job. She acknowledged a “systemic breakdown” cited by an independent review of issues leading up to the armed assault on the American-occupied compound in Benghazi, Libya, and said her department was taking additional steps to increase security at U.S. diplomatic facilities.

In most jobs, if there are “systemic breakdowns,” people are fired. But in this case, liberals and the fawning media gush that Clinton had done an extraordinary job. How can anyone come to that conclusion when four Americans are dead on her watch?

Oh sure, she “took responsibility” but blamed intelligence, Defense and everyone else, as liberals typically do. When asked how it happened and that the American people still don’t know, she responded with “What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening.”

With all due respect, as a polite person might say, that is simply a load of garbage. From her first day on the job in 2009, it was her responsibility to ensure the security of our diplomatic missions overseas and prevent the deaths of her employees! It is not her job to fly around the world while waiting for something to happen and then decide to figure out what happened and prevent it in the future.

Why didn’t this extraordinary leader and all the other oh-so-smart liberals on her staff figure it out in the previous four years? The ambassador and three other brave Americans might be alive today.

When Republicans are in these positions, Democrats, the media and other leftists typically find them less than extraordinary but manage to blame them for everything that happens — since they’re the ones “in charge.” But when the smartest people in the world (usually liberals) are in power, we are told that the job is so massive and complex no one could possibly be accountable for everything that happens.

Democrats, it seems, are never held accountable.

Could it be that liberal politics mandates that the left’s lust for power and control will be allowed to override the deaths of four Americans due to a lack of vision and outright failure at the highest levels?